18 miners raised on Saturday to the surface after an accident from the West mine were transferred today from the Novoshakhtinsky city hospital to medical institutions of the city of Shakhty, the Rostov Region. In the Novoshakhtinsky hospital, the head physician Dmitry Burtsev said, 15 miners remain in the treatment, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, the condition of all 33 miners is satisfactory.

The leader of the Atlanta Ilya Kovalchuk abandoned his 10th washer in the season, which did not save his "trasherz" from home defeat. The Woodpeckers this time played on their ice with Florida Panthers, and lost - 2: 3. Meanwhile, Tampa Bay, led by Nikolai Khabibulin, continues the winning series. Even in the first period, Atlanta missed two goals - Viktor Kozlov scored himself and helped Alex van Rinu, and at the beginning of the third period Ollie Yokinen brought to - 3: 0.

The new chef of the Katar television channel AL-JAZeera was appointed WADDA HANFAR, head of the Channel Cap on Baghdad, the al-Bayan emirath newspaper said on Sunday. The 35-year-old new editor-in-chief of the most popular television channel in the Arab world is a citizen of Jordan of Palestinian origin.

In a shootout with bandits in the district center of Servovodsk, the Sunzhensky district of Chechnya, a policeman died, Colonel Akhmed Dakaev, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, told Interfax on Sunday. According to him, on the eve of the police received information that a local resident suspected of murder a month ago in this village of two police officers, and two of his accomplices, were noticed in Sernovodsk.

Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Taliban government, Vakil Ahmed Mutavakil, was released from an American prison on the basis of Bagram near Kabul 10 days ago and now lives in his house in Kandahar. This was announced on Sunday by News, citing a statement by Khalid Pashtun, spokeswoman for the governor of this South Afghan province of Yusuf Pashtun. Mutavakil himself surrendered to the Americans in Kandahar in January 2002 and has since been in prison on the basis of Bagram.

Ukrainian border guards continue to serve on the island of Tuzl in the Sea of ​​Azov, ITAR-TASS reported on Sunday at the press center of the State Border Service of Ukraine. They said that the order was not received to remove the outpost from the island. On Friday, the Ukrainian government allocated about $ 1 million for the arrangement of the border outpost on the Tuzl.

On Sunday, two men's tournaments ended in Europe, where tennis players who qualified at Masters Cup in Houston took part. The Argentine Guillermo Coria won his fifth title this year in competitions in Switzerland, and the American Merdy Fish prevailed at the tournament in Stockholm. The victory was much easier than the fisha. His opponent in the final Swiss Indoors was his compatriot David Nalbandan.

The holding of free democratic elections in Iraq will become possible only after the Iraqis adopted a new constitution. Such a belief was expressed by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, ITAR-TASS reports. He believes that "elections will be able to go the earliest at the end of 2004." The interim managing council in Baghdad, the Secretary of State said, on December 15 intends to submit his plan for political settlement.

The largest chocolate in the world made in the Italian city of Peruja was eaten on Sunday during the annual festival of sweets "Euro-School", ITAR-TASS reports. Round tiles weighing 5.8 tons, 2.15 meters high and 2.31 meters in diameter will now be listed in the Guinness Book of Records. It took 1000 man-hours for its preparation, and it took only a few hours to “destroy” its “destruction” by the fair.

Russian businessman Vladimir Potanin through his press service denied information that he would buy a share in the London Arsenal. Earlier it was reported that Potanin wanted to invest 120 million pounds in the construction of the new Stadium for gunners.

In Moscow, a trolley bus burned on the Berezhkovskaya embankment, there were no injured. According to Interfax in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, at about 19:00 on Sunday in the area of ​​the N20 house, a route trolleybus caught fire on the Berezhkovskaya embankment. The fire quickly spread throughout the area of ​​the car, and the trolleybus almost completely burned out. The car was heading to the park, so there were no passengers in it. The driver was not injured.

Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin will miss a series of Grand Prix of the 2003/2004 season, which opens the Skate America tournament in Reding, Pennsylvania. Yagudin, was forced to abandon performances due to a chronic leg injury. Recall that the Russian skater was supposed to take part in the third and fourth stages of the Grand Prix - the China Cup in Beijing and the Lalik Cup in Paris.

The fate of 13 miners remaining underground at the western mine in the Rostov region is still unknown. As ITAR-TASS reported in the operational headquarters to eliminate the accident, all work is carried out in such a way that they are alive. In particular, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, a compressor was launched, which supplies air to the mine. Experts believe that at present the concentration of oxygen in the shaft adit is quite sufficient for life.

A plate with the name of the former president of France Francois Mitteran will appear on Sunday on one of the embankments of the Seine in the very center of Paris, next to the Louvre, RIA Novosti reports. It is expected that in the ceremony held by the Parisian mayor will be attended by many associates of the now deceased president-socialist. Among them are the former prime ministers Pierre Morois and Lionel Zhospen, former ministers, ambassadors and other prominent figures of the social party.

Foreign media and analysts believe that the arrest of the head of the largest Russian oil company Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky may negatively affect the attitude of foreign investors to Russia. “The arrest of such an influential businessman told the investment community to startle,” writes The Wall Street Journal . “A number of analysts have become the question of whether the state will try to confiscate Khodorkovsky’s control package in the Yukos that the already fragile property right in Russia.